One day when I was 6 years old, I woke up from my afternoon nap and cried sadly. I went to my dad in the kitchen and told him, “Dad, I don’t want to die!”

My dad smiled and said, “Don’t worry son. We won’t die so soon.”

When I grew up, I would have this unpleasant thought once a while. “When I die, I would disappear completely from this universe. I mean I would really disappear. No more me. No more senses. No more feeling. Nothing. The world still moves on… without me. I exist no more.”

Just when I am feeling joyous for my new born baby, I received a call from my ex-classmate this morning. I thought he wanted to wish me Happy Chinese New Year. But no, he did not. Instead, he delivered a shocking news – my another ex-classmate’s wife just died.

“HUH!!??” was my response. It was a road accident in highway. My ex-classmate whose wife died, had a few stitches on his head. And he forgot what happened.

His wife was in her early 30s. Young and pretty with bright future ahead, she suddenly left this world. How would her husband feel? How would her parents feel? And how would her parents-in-law feel?

Death is an experience all of us must go through. Some people fear it and some didn’t even dare to think about it. What happens after we die? Where will we go? Do we disappear just like that?

Near Death Experience, or NDE is an experience of a person who temporarily died but later become alive again. This experience is very important to doctors or scientists who are interested to learn more about death.